Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

I do like the world quite a lot.

The most pleasant surprise is to get lost in the beauty of life.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

If we control the ball, they pay.

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.